Knowledge and power in Muslim societies: approaches in intellectual history
The study of Islam and of Islamic history is enjoying something of a revival with an emphasis on intellectual history and a greater concern with the 'subaltern' within that. Why does religion continue to hold significance in our times? Are humans better off, adaptable, less violent, consis...
| Published in: | Studies in Islamic intellectual history |
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Gerlach Press
[2023]
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| Summary: | The study of Islam and of Islamic history is enjoying something of a revival with an emphasis on intellectual history and a greater concern with the 'subaltern' within that. Why does religion continue to hold significance in our times? Are humans better off, adaptable, less violent, consistently unpredictable? How can we understand the course of our political history and the seeming dominance of democracy and its discontents, not least the legacies of coloniality and empire? While nationalist historiographies prevail in many contexts as well as Marxist and other approaches, the trend seems to be towards connected histories, the transnational and the global. Much of this constitutes intellectual history, which as one leading expert puts it, "seeks to restore a lost world, to recover perspectives and ideas from the ruins, to pull back the veil, and explain why the ideas resonated in the past and convinced their advocates." (Richard Whatmore) Ideas are expressive of cultures and norms, practices and dispositions, of actions and events that lie at the very core of human experience such as sovereignty and power, mind and matter, profanity and spirituality. There are noticeable differences of approach in the various chapters presented but what brings them together is a careful study of texts, not in a reductively philological manner derided quite often these days but in the way in which we recognise that texts are forms of speech acts and lie alongside other forms of self-expression that can elucidate and illuminate as well as occlude. This is the first volume in the new series Studies in Islamic Intellectual History (ISSN 2941-1491). Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Series Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Introduction: Diversifying the Intellectual History of Islam and Muslim Cultures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PHILOSOPHY -- 1 Three Portraits of a Philosopher in Islamic Cultures -- A Decolonial Strategy -- How to Study Islamic Texts in 'Philosophy' -- Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Bābā of Timbuktu: Legal Activist as Philosopher -- Umm Salama Bēgum Nayrīzī: Lover and Mystic as Philosopher -- ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Muḥammad b. Niẓām al-Din [Baḥr al-ʿulūm]: Sunni Metaphysician and Court Philosopher -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Philosophy for Politics: Ancient Greek Philosophy Echoed in Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ's Writings -- Introduction -- Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and the Political Advice Texts Attributed to Him -- Al-Manṭiq -- Kalīla wa-Dimna -- The Kitāb al-Ādāb al-kabīr -- The Kitāb al-Adab al-ṣaghīr -- Political Epistles: The Risāla fī l-ṣaḥāba and al-Yatīma -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations for Ibn Muqaffaʿs Works -- Ibn Muqaffaʿ's Oeuvre -- Kitāb al-Ādāb al-kabīr -- Kitāb al-Adab al-ṣaghīr -- Kalīla wa-Dimna -- The Letter of Tansar -- Al-Manṭiq -- Risāla fī l-ṣaḥāba -- Al-Yatīma -- Other Sources and Studies -- 3 The Sorcerer Scholar: Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī between Grammar and Grimoire -- Introduction -- Sakkākī's Reputation -- Powerful Illusions -- The Magical Miftāḥ -- Those Who Know and Those Who Don't -- The Sun Is a Pot of Gold -- Poetry on Purpose -- A Powerful Muse -- Sakkākī the Man -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Al-Sakkākī's Works -- Other Sources and Studies -- 4 Knowledge for All: Zayn al-Dīn al-Kaššī (d. before 1228) on Philosophical Writing -- Introduction -- Knowledge (ʿilm) and Philosophy (ḥikma) -- The Duty to Write -- Who Are Muqallids?: The Ġazālian Background of al-Kaššī's Notion of Taqlīd. |
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| ISBN: | 395994165X |